Gatto analyzes why mass compulsory schooling is unreformable. Having taught in a Manhattan school district for 30 years, Gatto speaks from experience when offering this speculative history cum personal investigation. Arguing that public school allow psychic violence, teach numbness, and force the deterioration of parental responsibilities, Gatto advocates that children spend le...(展开全部)

盖伊•克拉克斯顿（GUY CLAXTON），国际知名的学者、作家、咨询师与讲学人，学术专长领域为创造性、教育和意识。他在英国剑桥大学读本科时取得过自然科学类学位考试双甲等的难得成绩，继而又在牛津大学获得博士学位。自1993年来，他一直在英国布里斯托尔大学任科学教育学客座教授。

约翰•富兰克林• 博比特（作者）是美国教育家、芝加哥大学教育管理学教授、作家。他的课程开发理论与实践，开启了课程开发的科学化运动。 刘幸（译者），北京师范大学教育学硕士，日本广岛大学教育学博士候选人。

约翰•富兰克林• 博比特（作者）是美国教育家、芝加哥大学教育管理学教授、作家。他的课程开发理论与实践，开启了课程开发的科学化运动。 刘幸（译者），北京师范大学教育学硕士，日本广岛大学教育学博士候选人。

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick" (Elle). "Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled read...(展开全部)

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to “read” and “write” our own genetic information? The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating a...(展开全部)

One of the first U.S. economic history texts on the market, this classic ties America's past to the economic policies and debates of today and beyond. Presenting economic events chronologically for easy understanding, the authors equip readers with a firm foundation in the evolution of American economic history.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., first revealed the sequences that governed American politics over the past two centuries in The Cycles of American History. In this updated edition, the prominent political historian continues to reflect on the "recurring struggle between pragmatism and idealism in the American soul" (Time). Faced with a new century, a new millennium, and social and ...(展开全部)

Since its beginnings at the start of the 20th century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy makers and relegated to the fringes of academe. An Elusive Science explains why, providing a critical history of the traditions, conflicts, and institutions that have shaped the study of education over the past century.

A groundbreaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful...(展开全部)